Don't take my word for it.
Take Chaldean Patriarch Emmanuel-Karim Delly's of Baghdad:
The death of the Al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq and the filling of the last posts in the Iraqi cabinet brings “hope that violence may come to an end,” said the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church here. ...more
Pray for him. We should be merciful even if he was truly evil. God will decide on Justice.
"Even if"? He beheaded innocent people in cold blood, and videotaped it for the world so he could boast about it. What would he have to do to be obviously evil -- eat his victims' entrails?